![]() May you merrily make the 2nd MEANINGFUL MOVE! BEYONDISM seeks to arm you with vital mental and emotional abilities which will aid and direct you in your present times, as well as form a strong foundation for your future thrive. This is an urgent enterprise which should happen before your aesthetic sense evaporates like alcohol upon sun, and the Divine Dance in the rhythm of your soul wanes off. It is an endeavour which should be accomplished before the happy wind gets knocked out of your sails; before a state of meaninglessness and emptiness seizes your LIFE. This is in order to avert a sorry state which may be characterised by stagnation, boredom and apathy. You will get well-researched strategies which will enable you to make the right decision at the right time, before your young hot-blood cools down and clots in your veins. You ought to assimilate these ideas before your humble aspirations become deep and silent rivers, on the verge of being blocked up by the concrete walls of social inertia. This must happen before your candles of boldness gets blown out, and all your high hopes gets shot down by the arrows of skeptism. This must be through before your latent creative powers gets set ablaze to ashes by the wild fires of hopelessness. Here are SEVEN modalities on the ENTRENCHED ESSENCE of SELF-AWARENESS:BEYONDISM seeks to arm you with vital mental and emotional abilities which will aid and direct you in your present times, as well as form a strong foundation for your future thrive. This is an urgent enterprise which should happen before your aesthetic sense evaporates like alcohol upon sun, and the Divine Dance in the rhythm of your soul wanes off. It is an endeavour which should be accomplished before the happy wind gets knocked out of your sails; before a state of meaninglessness and emptiness seizes your LIFE. This is in order to avert a sorry state which may be characterised by stagnation, boredom and apathy. You will get well-researched strategies which will enable you to make the right decision at the right time, before your young hot-blood cools down and clots in your veins. You ought to assimilate these ideas before your humble aspirations become deep and silent rivers, on the verge of being blocked up by the concrete walls of social inertia. This must happen before your candles of boldness gets blown out, and all your high hopes gets shot down by the arrows of skeptism. This must be through before your latent creative powers gets set ablaze to ashes by the wild fires of hopelessness. Here are SEVEN modalities on the ENTRENCHED ESSENCE of SELF-AWARENESS:Entertaining no amount of mediocrity, ‘Self-Awareness’, is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, and to have an expanded appreciation to events, issues and ideas. It entails a self-indulged option of ‘choosing thoughts being thought’ rather than simply ‘thinking the thoughts’ that are stimulated from the accumulated events which lead up to the circumstances of the moment. Strengthening anything that is GOOD in you, ‘Self-Awareness’, is discovering one’s natural bent, predominant instincts, inclinations and tendencies and working on capitalising them. It is playing the machinery that is one’s real human form and getting all its worth from it; squeezing out a hundred percent service from it. Seeking to let each experience to speak for itself without preconceptions or prejudices, is at the hub of ‘Self-Awareness’. This leads to accurate perception of ourselves and environment. It makes us free to be open to new experiences in the direction of fulfilling our potentials. It enables us to acquire a clear distinction between good and evil as well as distinguish between the sought for end goal and the means to be employed. Elevating ourselves on the wings of ‘Self-Awareness’, we shall develop what American psychologist Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970) referred to as ‘continued freshness of appreciation’. This connotes appreciating again and again the basics of LIFE, such that, each sunrise and sunset refreshes one a new. Consequently, each flower does not lose its miraculous quality. Nourishing and being content with what is within ourselves, the importance of ‘Self-Awareness’ cannot be overemphasised owing to the fact that, whatever is at the center of our LIFE will ultimately be the source of our security, wisdom and power. So we should never seek the centers, as well as sources of power from others but from within ourselves. Categorically, the exhortation of ‘Self-Awareness’ goes: “Resolve to be thyself; and you know that he or she who finds him or herself, loses misery”. We sign ourselves into failure as human beings when we limit ourselves from our true capabilities by trying to be someone else; we then play second fiddle to him or her, carrying this person’s self-image, not our own. Engaging all our faculties, in our African context, ‘Self-Awareness’ would mean recognising our peculiar historical situation and its psychological implications. In this way we may be able to transcend any mist of darkness and be able to move from self-defeating activities to self-nourishing ones. SEVEN ways in which ‘Self-Awareness’, will guide you in your CATEGORICAL CALLING:
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[prompt 1...Left hand palm placed on the chest, Right hand raised with a clenched fist rending the air] Hail BEYONDISM!===>[reply 1...imitating the prompter, but rending the air 3 times] Awakened. Blooming. Creative....... [prompt 2...Left hand clinching the waist, Right hand palm stroking the chest] I AM a Blessed Beyondist (BB)===>[reply 2...imitating the prompter, but stroking the chest 3 times] Which amounts to being The Anointed One (TAO).......[prompt 3...Hands resting on the belly, head slightly bowed] In as much as My ‘BEING’ is in holy harmony with Nature and The SUPREME BEING so WHAT?===>[reply 3...imitating the prompter, but bowing the head 3 times] GOD IS FOR ME. GOD IS IN ME. GOD IS WITH ME. [facing each other, hands lifted up with open palm, slashing the air 7 times] AFRICA. AFRICA. AFRICA! ARISE. ADVANCE. ACHIEVE! AMEN! May you celestially celebrate the 2nd BEYONDIST BOMBSHELL!
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YE SHALL BE THE PERSON, YOU WERE CREATED TO BE--->YE SHALL BE THE PERSON, YOU WERE CREATED TO BEWill-to-Selfhood Selfhood Code Sun Awakening Will-to-Strength Strength Code Mercury Success Will-to-Love Loving Code Venus Intimacy Will-to-Live Living Code Earth Progress Will-to-Health Health Code Mars Conquest Will-to-Lead Leading Code Jupiter Greatness Will-to-Relate Relating Code Saturn Goodwill Will-to-Parent Parenting Code Uranus Nurturing Will-to-Become Becoming Code Neptune Growth |
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May you whoopingly win the 2nd PURPOSIVE PRIZE! Self-Awareness is an inborn uniqueness that carries over into everything you do. You will see the real and true more easily, be original, inventive and less inhibited. Self-Awareness consists of free, trusting, unpremeditated expression of the self. You will be expressive, perceptive, and spontaneous in everyday LIFE. Control, caution, self-criticism, measure, deliberateness are the brakes upon this expression. This is made intrinsically necessary by the laws of the social and natural world. It is made necessary by the fear of the ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ your authentic real self. By overcoming all impediments, you will be able to see things in new ways. You have no CHOICE but to be a “COMPLETE CIVILISATION” of a PERSON. As a BLESSED BEYONDIST, your FREEDOM is to be no less than an authentic human being. You must contend the bare TRUTH of ‘existence’ that you are fully endowed by GOD. You have within yourself all the necessary WILL and utilities to thrive in this WORLD. You are essentially abandoned to your FATE (your infinitely immense, inherent POWER). You either sink or swim in the currents of LIFE without any crutches to lean on. You must be a “three dimensional individual”, truly thriving in the sciences. Also inspiringly immersed in the art of LIFE, and soundly spirited by philosophy. |
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iv. “A little pleasure is nevertheless a pleasure”. The 2nd AFRICAN AFFIRMATION: |
v. “And whatever affliction that befalls you, it is on account of what your hand have wrought”. The 2nd SCRIPTURAL STANDING: |
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Etymologically, the verb “to be” originated from the Greek word ‘einai’, the French ‘etre’, the German ‘sein’ and the Latin ‘esse’. These denote the process of coming to existence, the act by which BEING becomes a BEING, the coming to existence of a thing. In all languages it is the most general statement of reality of any BEING: that IT IS. Not that it is this or any type of BEING, but simply that IT IS. It has come to be. It has existence. It is there. Looking into some other scholars’ view on BEING, Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 - 322 BCE) describes BEING as the foundation and unity of all things. Scottish philosopher Duns Scotus (1266? - 1308) maintains that whatever exists is BEING. English philosopher Williams of Ockham (1285? - 1349?) defined BEING as ‘that which is’. |
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i.See FURTHER than others.ii.Achieve FASTER than others.iii.Succeed EARLIER than others.iv. Achieve THINGS with less effort.v. Embrace STRUGGLES heartily.vi.Seek to KNOW no boundaries.vii.Cultivate thy PASSIONS deeply.Truly, this is your 2nd Mortal Mission, as a function of your Divine Duty.
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Why is BEYONDISM effortlessly ECLECTIC, without being effetely ENIGMATIC? Here is the 2nd DIVINE DOSE to keenly keep your PSYCHE bounteously BOOSTED: BEYONDISM gathers wisdoms across ages, yet roots them firmly in African consciousness and clarity. |
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The 2nd ONE Word (hover below) which Breeds SEVEN Words to Depict Who a BLESSED BEYONDIST Is:---> The 2nd of SEVEN reasons why you should be PROUD to be an AFRICAN:
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BEYONDIST Text to Speech ConverterHail Assertive African, click here to listen to what you have affirmatively ascribed unto thyself There are a lot of people who are offended by the idea that “we create our reality.” They see it as a version of blaming the victim. There are three buckets in LIFE — things we control, things we influence, and things over which we have no control. What we control, and where we really start to CREATE our REALITY, is in how we perceive/interpret/think about the events in our LIFE that generate our feelings about those events, and how we subsequently respond with our behavior. No one can choose your thoughts or actions; those are yours alone. O Thee Blessed Beyondist, stop mark-timing in your low self-esteem. Seize this historical chance and merry moment to soulfully scribe for yourself a unique ‘Individually Inspiring Instruction’. ---> |
Born on January 26, 1970, this man Kirk Dwayne Franklin,‘I SMILE’, by KIRK FRANKLIN Is an American gospel musician, choir director, and author. He is known for leading urban contemporary gospel choirs, Such as The Family, God’s Property and One Nation Crew. This year 2012 song ‘I Smile’ is one of his best production. Even though I’m hurt, I will smile, I know God is working. You look so much better when you smile, so keep smiling. I dedicate this song to recession, |
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| Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true. GNOTHI SEAUTON (Greek: “Know Thyself”), is the most important philosophical and existentially enduring statement by ancient Greek philosopher Socrates (469 – 399 B.C.). “Knowing thyself, O Croesus — thus shall you live and be happy,” was the inspiring illumination received by Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon (570 - 475 B.C.). There is infinitely worthier subject for any human being than all those trees and stones, and even all those stars. There is an absolutely nourishing endeavour than all the material endowment of this world - the SELF-ACTUALIZATION of the person - what an individual is, and what he or she can become. |
i. TO be precise, a BLESSED BEYONDIST primarily exists – that you are, before all else, something which propels itself towards a future and you are aware that you are doing so.---> You are fully conscious. American rapper Nas (b. 1973) cautions: “What do you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you’re inferior, not major.” ii. HAPPILY, you are, indeed, a project which possesses a subjective LIFE, instead of being a kind of moss, or a fungus or a cauliflower. Before that projection of self, nothing exists.---> So seek to live in the pure moment. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed,” so sung American rapper Eminem (b. 1972). iii. YOU will only live authentically and productively when you purposes to be. This is one of the tap-roots of BEYONDISM. Not, what you may fantastically wish to be;---> it is trusting your gut feelings, as American rapper Mac Miller (1992 – 2018) sung: “Sometimes it’s hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart, and hope it all goes well.” iv. SUBSTANTIALLY, what we usually understand by WILLING is a conscious decision taken – much more often than not – after we have made ourselves what we are,---> irrespective of whether others likes us or not. “Love me or hate me, I stay hate free. They say we learn from mistakes well that’s why they mistake me,” so sung American rapper Lil Wayne (b. 1982). v. ENDEAVOURING to keep our hopes high and our dreams distinct is vital. What is usually called “my intention” is probably a manifestation of a prior and more spontaneous decision. ---> Let no one dilute your ideals, as Nigerian-American rapper Wale (b. 1984) sung: “I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, or use my arrogance as a steam to power my dreams.” vi. LOFTILY, the greatest effect of BEYONDISM is that, it puts every individual in possession of him or herself as he or she is, and places the entire responsibility for his or her existence,---> squarely upon his or her own shoulders. Negativity should be viewed positively, as American rapper and actor T.I (b. 1980) sung: “God will take you through hell, just to get to heaven.” vii. FUNDAMENTALLY, when we sincerely say that every person is radically responsible for him or herself, we do mean that he or she is responsible only for his or her own individuality,---> but that he or she is responsible also for all other human beings. This what American rapper Rick Ross (b. 1976) sung about: “How many people you bless, is how you measure success.” The endeavour to KNOW THYSELF entails total immersal of our whole BEING (rational and emotional selfs) unto EXISTENCE. Unfortunately, almost without exception, philosophers have placed the essence of the individual purely in thought; the human being was the animalis rationalis (Latin, “rational animal”). This ancient and universal radical error, this enormous proton pseudo (Greek, “first lie, initial mistake”), must before everything be set aside. Our quest to categorically correct this “truncated (cut-off) view” of Human Nature, is premised on this TRUTH: A human being is a rational, as well as an emotional creature. Desire preceeds understanding, and not the vice varsa. “The concept of man as an animal guided by reason ignores the deeper, irrational forces which shape, drive and bind the individual to their peremptory demands,” so said prominent 21st Century political scientist I.R Sinai. To be precise, we do not want a thing because we have found reasons for it, we find reasons for it because we want it. We even craft elaborate ideologies and theologies to cloak or express our desires. Remember the emphatic statement of Dutch philosopher and religious thinker Benedict Spinoza (1632 - 1677): “Man is a social animal…Desire is the very essence of man…Everything, insofar as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being.”---> |
LIFE HAS A TENDENCY TO PROVIDE a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, our attitudes, what we value in LIFE, provide the roadmap for the type of LIFE that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless we change our values and ideas, we will continue to experience discontentment. Listen to Roman emperor (161 - 180 AD) and philosopher Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD): “Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.” Let yourself be drawn by the solidly stronger pull of that which you truly love. |
Sorrowful as it is, you did not apply to be born and you---> cannot foresee the cause, as well as circumstances of your death. This is what British poet Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) sighed about: |
As you simply found yourself in this world, you were---> never consulted whether you would want to be a boy or a girl, an African or a European, a Kikuyu or a Kamba. However, never forget the words of French epigrammatist and moralist François La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680): “The accent of one’s birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one’s speech.” |
Motivated as you might be, you have no conscious---> control, over your autonomic internal body processes like digestion and respiration amongst many others. Can you comprehend this insight of U.S. psychologist and philosopher William James (1842 - 1910)? “Consciousness...is only intense when nerve-processes are hesitant. In rapid, automatic, habitual action it sinks to a minimum.” |
Purposive as you should be, you are perhaps helpless---> or have absolutely no control over almost all natural happenings like storms and earthquakes. All in all, British writer Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797) has some consolation for you: “This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.” |
LIFE moves in an unidirectional manner, as no one can---> reverse the wheel of daily experiences, and there has been no formal statement from the dead to the living about the experiences after death. But there is one uncontestable fact as Scottish philosopher William Hamilton (1788 - 1856) realized: “On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.” |
Experimental as well as historical data informs us that,---> human beings barely use ten percent of their brain capacity. Perhaps this is why British writer Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) complained: “I’ll give you my opinion of the human race...Their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.” |
Strictly speaking, whereas the absolute universal TRUTH---> is GOD, there is no universal TRUTH in as far human beings are concerned. And British poet, priest, and classicist Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) concurs: “My selfbeing, my consciousness and feelings of myself, that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things...is incommunicable by any means to another man.” |
BBEYONDISM WILL NOT TIRE OF REMINDING you that, as a human being (as opposed to many other living organisms) you are not born once and for all on the day your mother give birth to you, but LIFE obliges you over and over again to give birth to yourself. Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment. Do not compromise yourself. |
Serious as it may sound, even though you were thrust---> without your volitional consent into the world, it solely lies upon you to mould your essence. Moreover, if you are not suicidal, you do not get to choose when or how you are going to die, but you can only decide how you are going to live in the moment. Listen to French philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980): “Man is condemned to be free.” |
Amass the contention that LIFE is analogous to a book,---> such that when we were children our parents and society wrote the first chapters for us, and we may or we may not like either the content or the outline. But as mature individuals it is in our freedom to turn a new page today, take the pen in our own hand, and look forward to crafting our own plot and theme. You have to accept whom you are by capitalising on your strengths and working on your weaknesses. |
Make sure that, you ensure the smooth working of your---> autonomic processes by being discriminatory on what you ingest, more importantly avoiding all types of drugs. Most vital, cultivate thy mental muscle as British poet Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) glimpsed: |
Practically, though you cannot change the natural events,---> you can always change your perceptions towards these events and probably use them as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks. British poet William Cowper (1731 - 1800) paints a perfect picture of a real human being: “His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.” |
Live NOW! In as much you have no idea of LIFE BEYOND---> the grave, you should construe each moment as a challenge to you, and respond to it with the best that is in you. Having appeared in the world one time only, you never have the chance of starting a new LIFE equipped with the experience from a previous LIFE, such that it is your divine duty to pluck the thorn from your seemingly or possibly cursory LIFE and plant a rose in its place. |
Every action should be directed towards improving your---> competence in everything you do. It is within the human power of every individual to plug into the other ninety percent, access and utilise one’s immense latent resources. Listen to U.S. novelist and journalist Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007): “Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.” |
Surely, you are existentially condemned to find for yourself---> your individual TRUTH. Your future is not far away from you, but it is precisely locked inside you. Like a maize seed which when planted in a well manured soil, subjected to abundant light, will grow into a big maize comb, when you arouse in you the latent God endowed abilities, you will grow into WHOM YOU ARE, your TRUTH where you will revel in your unique personal resources. |
“Any concept without percept is blind…Any percept without concept is empty”, so taught, German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804). The concept of AFRICAN ASSERTIVENESS without PROVOKING POSITIVE PERCEPTIONS, is simply a blind ideal. On the other hand, PROVOKING POSITIVE PERCEPTIONS devoid of the concept of AFRICAN ASSERTIVENESS, is basically an empty ideal. BEYONDISM arises out of commitment to develop a system of ethical values on the sound foundations of psychology, as illumined by the precise insights of philosophy. This line of thought was summarised by American psychologist, Gordon Allport (1897 - 1967): “The philosophy of the person is inseparable from the psychology of the person.” Is TRUTH barren? |
Faced by the option of stagnation or growth, people strive---> continuously to realise their inherent potential by whatever avenues are open to them. The influence of the external environment on normal development is minimal. A human being’s potential, if allowed to unfold by an appropriate environment, will produce a healthy, integrated personality. |
All human beings, unlike animals have value system,---> develop a cognitive structure and think. While rational thinking promotes a healthy functioning person, holding irrational ideas eventually get them in trouble. And so affirms U.S. psychologist and philosopher William James (1842 - 1910): “We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.” |
Consciously, people can always overcome their difficulties---> by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behaviour, and emotional responses. This involves developing skills for modifying beliefs, identifying distorted thinking and relating to others in positive ways. |
Transcendent as it is, it is always possible for an individual---> to become more fully and creatively alive and to become free from the blocks and unfinished business that may diminish satisfaction, fulfillment, and growth, and to experiment with new ways of being. Spanish-born U.S. philosopher, poet, and novelist George Santayana (1863 - 1952) asserts: “A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.” |
Usually, one can develop a healthy functioning personality,---> through personal choice, personal responsibility and personal transformation which is precursor of a success identity. This is characterised by feeling good and comfortable about oneself, as opposed to failure identity which is the main source of anxiety, guilt, and self-disapproval. |
A human being struggles to know and understand the meaning---> of one’s LIFE. The blockage of this search leads to a state of meaninglessness in LIFE (existential vacuum) or existential frustration. One can find the meaning of one’s existence by becoming conscious of one’s responsibilities (obligations that help one understand the meaning of LIFE). |
Laudable as it is, is there any such happiness as for a person’s---> mind to be raised above the confusion of things, where he or she may have a respect of the order of Nature and the error of human beings? Is there but a view only of delight and not of discovery? Of contentment and not of benefit? Shall we not discern as well the riches of human nature’s warehouse as the beauty of her shop? |
There are many types of toxic people out there and they are all too easy to encounter. These are the kind of people who dwell in the recesses of hopelessness, moaning about things they cannot change, criticising things, taking offence to harmless conversational topics, an inhibition and reticence to laugh. They are sometimes unmotivated, often directionless, usually always critical and almost always easily irritated whilst simultaneously incredibly irritating. The reason is simple – humans are extremely susceptible to the moods, emotions, and even the ways of thinking of those with whom they spend their time. The incurably unhappy and unstable have a particularly strong infecting power because their characters and emotions are so intense. They often present themselves as victims, making it difficult, at first, to see their miseries as self-inflicted. Before you realise the real nature of their problems you have been infected by them. People with a SCARCITY (powerless, toxic) MENTALITY lives in a SLAVISH STATE thus:
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Be forewarned by these signs of an infector; learn to see the discontent in their eye. Some have lean and hungry look. Most important of all, do not take pity. Do not enmesh yourself in trying to help. The infector will remain unchanged, but you will be unhinged. Understand this: In matters concerning SELF-ACTUALIZATION, the people you associate with are critical. The risk of associating with infectors is that you will waste valuable time and energy trying to free yourself. Through a kind of guilt by association, you will also suffer in the eyes of others. Never underestimate the dangers of infection. |
Remember that, the only person you have is yourself; and if your mind is co-opted by TOXICITY, you are compromised and in need of fixing. When the good times roll, remember that good friends are bonuses. If you become reliant upon such fancies, you will grow weak in character. Do not rely on these people – choose these people to come along for the ride but do not rely on them to give you a ride. Self-reliance is a key component of abundance. With an ABUNDANCE (powerful) MENTALITY you will EFFICIENTLY ELEVATE yourself thus:
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![]() The 2nd Enduring Excerpt The 17th century French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician,
René Descartes (1596 - 1650), was also one of the most influential thinkers in Western philosophy, and is sometimes called the father of modern philosophy. Descartes stressed the importance of skepticism in thought and proposed the idea that existence had a dual nature: one physical, the other mental. The latter concept, known as Cartesian dualism, continues to engage philosophers today. This excerpt from Discourse on Method (first published in his Philosophical Essays in 1637) contains a summary of his thesis, which includes the celebrated phrase “I think, therefore I am.” ...Then examining attentively what I was, and seeing that I could pretend that I had no body and that there was no world or place that I [was] in, but that I could not, for all that, pretend that I did not exist, and that, on the contrary, from the very fact that I thought of doubting the truth of other things, it followed very evidently and very certainly that I existed; while, on the other hand, if I had only ceased to think, although all the rest of what I had ever imagined had been true, I would have had no reason to believe that I existed; I thereby concluded that I was a substance, of which the whole essence or nature consists in thinking, and which, in order to exist, needs no place and depends on no material thing; so that this “I”, that is to say, the mind, by which I am what I am, is distinct entirely from the body, and even that it is easier to know than the body, and moreover that even if the body were not, it would not cease to be all that it is...After this, I considered in general what is needed for a proposition to be true and certain; for, since I had just found one which I knew to be so, I thought that I ought also to know what this certainty consisted of. And having noticed that there is nothing at all in this, I think, therefore I am, which assures me that I am speaking the truth, except that I see very clearly that in order to think one must exist, I judged that I could take it to be a general rule that the things we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are nevertheless some difficulty in being able to recognize for certain which are the things we see distinctly... |
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